Possessing annihilative power. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city. ,to annihilate an army. ,to annihilate a law. ,Our basketball team annihilated the visiting team. From Dictionary.com.
JH, Iran is a hyper-aggressive, annihilative, nuclear-armed theocratic Islamic regime in the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Indeed, their very power has made their use intolerable, even unthinkable, because of the annihilative retaliation in kind that such use would invoke. From Wordnik.com. [Lester Bowles Pearson - Nobel Lecture] Reference
And now she remembered that she had an annihilative weapon against him. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
The truly annihilative force is in the conceited, unrealistic ambition of April Wheeler. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(PTI) R Ashwin bowled a virulent opening spell before Suresh Raina played an annihilative. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Hughes can be Australia's Virender Sehwag: Ponting] Reference
Without self-limitation, the quest for energy will be a perpetual tail-chase exhibiting severe nocuous, deleterious, and annihilative repercussions. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
It is wonderful that any man could have, in the space of eight days, written, with his own hand, so fiery an invective, so compelling of the attention of any reader, so completely annihilative of his antagonist's pretensions and contentions, so convincingly establishing his own: to have made of it, in the course of composition so rapid and totally unrevised, such a jewel of. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
While those who lead in global economic reforms are exporting their culture and promoting other countries’, we are in an annihilative mood under the guise of progress and reforms. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The Martians figure as a prevision of a technologized future, and the narrator’s scrutiny of their features and annihilative machinery reveals a potentially dangerous element in humanity’s relationship to technology. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2010 « Dynamic Subspace] Reference
When Israel loses in the great hypothetical battle ... in the unforeseeable future, it shall deploy the spread wings of nuclear warheads to destroy adversaries and allies in the obliteration of innumerable millions of human beings, animals and organic life, inferring its conceived truth of absolute moral relativism as having possessed annihilative power in taking the world down with Israel in the orgiastically ethnocentric finale of existentially triumphant self-destruction as the ultimately defeated enemy of the civilized world. From Wordnik.com. [Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free] Reference
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